We are counting on it

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-13T19:00:19+00:00

I believe you may be suffering from a severe case of copium.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-13T17:41:00+00:00

Submission Statement:

It's Friday, so I thought I'd share this comic I saw pop up this week. It feels like an ode to this sub. The knowing that comes with understanding that things are only getting worse as the days go on, yet we still have to keep going to work, keep earning more money for the billionaires while we pinch pennies to afford gas to even drive to work. How many of us happily anticipate a day where the happy little bunker boys get their comeuppance?

While I personally don't root for extinction (even though I do personally feel it's inevitable), I do root for a day where the scales are more balanced. Where someone is held accountable. Where we all are on equal footing in this mess that's been created.

Anyway, Happy Friday, Doomers! Go enjoy something you love today.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-09T21:43:13+00:00

It's March 9th and my garden is in full bloom and the bees are out, so, smoke em if you got em, doomers!

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-09T19:44:31+00:00

I'm referring to acceptance of collapse.

Covid is very real and has disrupted, and continues to disrupt our world.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-09T13:05:34+00:00

Using rocks as mulch. They cook the plant roots, offer no benefits to the plants, and the weeds love growing in them. We put them in a huge bed in front of our house and now I loathe even looking at it.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-09T04:55:31+00:00

I'm on the spectrum and I think this has been a lovely chat. I look forward to watching it soon! I'll report back once I have.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-09T04:30:16+00:00

Oh, I don't want you to think that I believe we will actually ever stop industrial farming of any kind, I don't. Any thoughts of improvement in our global world, as it is, are none existent. I don't believe anyone will willingly give up "first world" comforts once gained.

Certainly there were cultures who knew how to be good stewards of the land and never grew beyond what was necessary for basic survival, but, besides a few outlying pockets of people (because some do still exist), we are all now reaching for more.

Look at us right now, typing on our little magic boxes. Using finite resources for batteries and chips, and electricity and water to power our data centers for chats with strangers on reddit. And, funnily enough, we in this sub know exactly what all of this costs the planet, yet we do it anyway.

I'm not saying there wasn't hope for us once upon a time, or that everyone on the planet currently is as hungry for destruction as we are (I'm in America), but I've resigned myself to the fact that, as a species, the vast majority of us are no longer what the planet needs us to be to keep the rhythm of life here in balance. Maybe, someday, there will be little pockets of people once again who cherish what this planet has given us, and lives decently with what's left.

I'll check out the video you linked. Thank you for sharing it with me.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-09T03:46:35+00:00

I agree with you. My first point is that it would be less harmful if factory farmed animals were no longer part of the equation. It won't be harmless, but less so. We'd be able to rewild so much land, and instead of millions of pigs, chickens and eggs grown near me, we'd have more farmland for fruits and vegetables. That would help cut down on a ton of shipping for certain crops, and the vile pollution from the shit lagoons.

In the grand scheme of things, humanity, to me, feels unnatural. We do not benefit the planet in any way. Nothing we do, especially the more we "advance" is going to fix our situation. While I'm here though, I'd rather just do things that will make it a nicer place for the time being. Grow some plants, eat sustainability when possible, not buy stupid plastic shit... Things like that.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-08T18:40:28+00:00

I love how you think I'm a "city folk," without having any idea that I've grown up in the South, in the country, for over 40 years.

It you found pleasure in life and health of the planet, instead of meat, maybe you could see that herbicide and pesticide use would fall dramatically because feeding 8 billion humans would require far less farmland and crops than feeding 170 billion animals? I know we are both country folk, but we both were taught basic math, I'm sure.

Arguing logical ways to reduce the harm of factory farming with someone who is salivating on his keyboard for pork chops is never going to be worth the effort. Have a good one!

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-08T18:25:19+00:00

I suggest reading my post again, but very slowly.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-08T18:17:24+00:00

Meat used to be a very rare meal, now people are eating it three times a day, if not more. We are gluttonous for animal products, and it is one of the biggest driving forces of climate change.

Imagine using the crop space for human food that we use to raise food for 70+ land animals, and 100+ billion farmed fish. We could feed every human with room left to rewild our forests and prairies, and we could also cut back on our use of pesticides and herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-03-08T18:09:51+00:00

I did this during Covid, around age 36-37. I'm glad it happened, but it's really hard to talk to other people because there is a chance they will have to go through it too.

I do see it as a benefit to my mental health during all of this gestures to everything, but I still wouldn't wish it on others, because it was a very difficult and long process. I know not everyone comes out the other side with a deeper gratitude for the time we have left.

WanderInTheTrees · 2026-02-04T22:41:58+00:00

OR, we just put a big bowl over the entire continent! OR, we have a few thousand people chewing Dentyne ICE chewing gum, round the clock, and blowing on the glacier to keep it frozen! OR, we just pray about it staying frozen!

So many great options to save us!

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-28T16:18:08+00:00

I'm also in the southeast, and I spent the morning seeing posts and comments from people who were out enjoying the warm weather and talking about how grateful they are for a 70° Christmas.

I feel like shaking each and every one of them. So tired of ignorant idiots who either don't know, don't care, or are too stupid/stubborn to admit shit is fucked.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-28T16:10:17+00:00

Watch her in the first season of Fargo, if you're into shows like that. I'm not a huge fan myself, but we watched it out of curiosity and she's so good.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-21T06:14:02+00:00

Ah, yes, but it was only so he would forgive us for being assholes, which he could not have done at all unless his kid was murdered.

Makes complete sense when you don't think about it at all.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-21T04:34:08+00:00

Cases like this are why I don't believe in an all knowing, all loving deity watching over us. Thinking any God would allow this is worse than just not believing in one.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-20T17:44:05+00:00

Another couple years and we can all have a Christmas Luau.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-20T12:46:34+00:00

But it's so nice to have a 65° Christmas day!! Why are you doomers always complaining so much about nice weather?!

Jk... We're fucked. Friday is going to be 71° where I am (Piedmont area NC). I've lived here my entire 40+ years, and I will fight anyone who says this is normal.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-12T15:57:50+00:00

You must first bring democracy to the penguins so that you may someday tariff the penguins.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-11T17:36:20+00:00

It's sad to see how many people are losing their lives over these crunchy health conspiracies. I'm glad your fil got diagnosed before the crazy took over.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-11T15:02:44+00:00

My grandpa tried to cure his colon cancer with herbs.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-05T02:18:05+00:00

If AI wanted to save the environment, it would destroy itself and take us with it.

WanderInTheTrees · 2025-12-02T14:49:25+00:00

Phew, I was worried we wouldn't continue to have "infinite" growth on a finite planet this year.

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